Also be sure to check out our extensive 5.0.4 patch guide with information about new talents, Theramore's Fall, and the revamped dungeons!

Account-Wide Achievements, Titles, Mounts, and Pets

Account-Wide Achievements

Many achievements, titles, mounts, and pets are now account-wide in 5.0.4. Your achievement total will reflect the sum total of everything earned on all your characters. But to get everything added to your totals and collections, you will need to log in all relevant characters or else their contributions won't show up. Some massive achievements can also be completed with contributions from multiple characters.

Honorable kill achievements are a notable exception. These are account-wide: Of The Alliance

While most titles are account-wide, your alts must be at an appropriate level to unlock them. If an alt is too low-level to earn the achievement on their own, it won't show up. Notable low-level titles include:

Account-Wide Pets

Pet totals work slightly differently than mounts.

Most pets are account-wide, and if multiple characters already had the same common pet, then up to 2 additional copies of the pet are added to your total. This is because you can have duplicate pets on a team for pet battles.

Faction-specific pets are account-wide, as well as pets tied to guild reputation.

Unique pets are tied to the TCG or the Blizzard store. They are account-wide, but you do not get duplicate copies of those.

You can't battle pets now, but you can rename them!

Ulvareth

When Patch 5.0.4 goes live, we will be implementing systems that prepare characters for the Pet Battles system that is coming with World of Warcraft: Mists of Pandaria, and bringing account-wide non-combat pets to the game. During the patching process, non-combat pets will be migrated among your characters, with the final result being all of your non-combat pets available to all of your characters. This initial adjustment to your catalog of pets includes several changes that are worth noting.

1. There will be a limit of 500 pets, per player, that can be carried going forward.

Players will be allowed to go over the 500 pet cap during the 5.0.4 migration.

The migration will not convert more than a total of 1500 pets for a player.

Unique pets will be merged, so there will not be more than one unique pet on an account.

2. Pets that can only be used by characters of the other faction will be greyed out.

Comments

Comment by Raline

on 2012-08-29T14:12:51-05:00

Worth saying that if you are having trouble with the account wide stuff, you need to log all involved chars, so it gets updated. I do hope they come up with a better solution, for ppl like me with frozen accounts linked to the same b.net account, but so far nothing...

Comment by Findoor214

on 2012-08-29T14:20:57-05:00

i wish the class mount was at least shares with the same class on a dif server IE my dk on 1 server could have the flyin mount same as other dk on another server :)

Comment by Fallowynde

on 2012-08-29T15:10:37-05:00

Gotta say, ticked off about the Chopper/MechanoHog. All my main toons are on Ally side, and along with them all my gold. Hordeside I have like no money, and now I can't have a bike on my Tauren. :(

Comment by Raline

on 2012-08-29T15:18:28-05:00

Ofc you can Fallowynde, just move the money to horde via neutral AH (like selling a gray item for 15k gold) and buy it...

Comment by bornidiotic

on 2012-08-29T15:22:43-05:00

May be worth noting that the achievements for hunting down rares in Outland Bloody Rare and Northrend Frostbitten, your progress is account-wide. Happy Hunting!

Comment by Fallowynde

on 2012-08-29T15:40:31-05:00

Ofc you can Fallowynde, just move the money to horde via neutral AH (like selling a gray item for 15k gold) and buy it...

That would work if they were on the same server... which they are not.

Comment by Ashelia

on 2012-08-29T15:40:48-05:00

May be worth noting that the achievements for hunting down rares in Outland Bloody Rare and Northrend Frostbitten, your progress is account-wide. Happy Hunting!

That's very useful, interesting change.

Comment by faerogue

on 2012-08-29T16:29:11-05:00

The VP achievement counted across toons for me, albeit a little strangely. I got the 100k one upon logging in to a toon that hadn't even earned enough VP to buy anything more than a wand, at the same time my main still has the 50k achievement showing as in progress.

Comment by Wolfein

on 2012-08-29T17:19:51-05:00

Worth saying that if you are having trouble with the account wide stuff, you need to log all involved chars, so it gets updated. I do hope they come up with a better solution, for ppl like me with frozen accounts linked to the same b.net account, but so far nothing...

Comment by Benie76

on 2012-08-29T17:26:28-05:00

I nearly pissed my pants when I found my chars on both of my accounts can use my Vial of the Sands.I still can't believe it. This is unlike Blizzard at all. They're supposed to make your life a living hell, and make all your chars work their arse off for mounts and stuff.

And they do this. Literally give away the vial to my other chars. It feels too good to be true.

Comment by 3xul

on 2012-08-29T17:43:25-05:00

You missed out the modified warlock set bonus.

Formerly 10% Spell Power after using Soul Burn and in addition restoring the shard, if a Soulfire is cast, while the Soul Burn Buff is active.

Comment by Jaladar

on 2012-08-29T17:47:34-05:00

Got My Mind On My Money does not seem to be counting across all of my characters. I have been through them all, but each one is still only counting their specific gold. Is this a bug or did they opt not to make this across all characters (It says above in the article it is across all of them but as I said....)?

Comment by leobolin

on 2012-08-29T18:10:33-05:00

Got My Mind On My Money does not seem to be counting across all of my characters. I have been through them all, but each one is still only counting their specific gold. Is this a bug or did they opt not to make this across all characters (It says above in the article it is across all of them but as I said....)?

It is for me.

Comment by Alfador

on 2012-08-29T19:21:27-05:00

Note: If you have more than three of the same non-unique pet across all characters, all copies of the pet WILL be migrated currently!

Blizzard has stated that there is a cap of 1500 on the total number of copies of pets that may be added during the migration. However, the cap of three per type only applies to learning new copies of a pet, not migrating from existing characters. You cannot currently cage the excess, but you will be able to on the day Mists launches.

Comment by deathbyte

on 2012-08-29T19:48:19-05:00

Unde Inscrpition. it should say blackfallow ink not ink of the sea

Comment by reinakristina247

on 2012-08-29T20:47:33-05:00

I have one problem with this. The Reins of the Traveler's Tundra Mammoth, can be purchased on alliance side or horde side. The only difference is the color and the vendors to which are sitting on the mount. They should automatically be switched when you are on horde or alliance. Regardless of what server or side you are one. Blizzard needs to fix this....

Comment by elionor

on 2012-08-29T22:11:25-05:00

Gotta say, ticked off about the Chopper/MechanoHog. All my main toons are on Ally side, and along with them all my gold. Hordeside I have like no money, and now I can't have a bike on my Tauren. :(

dude its battle net account wide that means if they are eligible every character on every account that is linked on battle.net will receive the mount

Comment by giga

on 2012-08-29T22:35:44-05:00

"The Insane" is now available for all characters? In the words of Mr. Burns: Excellent!

Doing that once is more than enough.

Comment by Rainemard

on 2012-08-29T23:13:42-05:00

Got My Mind On My Money does not seem to be counting across all of my characters. I have been through them all, but each one is still only counting their specific gold. Is this a bug or did they opt not to make this across all characters (It says above in the article it is across all of them but as I said....)?

Comment by Jaladar

on 2012-08-30T04:37:59-05:00

Got My Mind On My Money does not seem to be counting across all of my characters. I have been through them all, but each one is still only counting their specific gold. Is this a bug or did they opt not to make this across all characters (It says above in the article it is across all of them but as I said....)?